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Tuesday, 5 August 2014

you would generally associate with pulling bunnies out of hats, coins behind your ears and sawing people in half (I quite like watching the latter).Whilst magic shows are fantastic, I sometimes wish the magic would apply to other areas, like dirty dishes disappearing and assignments completing themselves.

As we all know, that won't be happening (anytime soon) so I'm going to introduce you an equally good (if not better) alternative. Matcha Custard Cake- featuring, you guessed it, azuki beans.

Magic & cake? If you didn't think cake was already magical, I present you with the Magic Custard Cake.

This recipe was first spotted on White on rice couple's blog and is adapted from Raspberry Cupcakes recipe.

How magical is this cake? think rainbows and unicorns. Yes, that magical. Otherwise, how would a humble cake batter transform into 2 luscious layers of cake and custard? (hrrm... It could be the unicorns or Harry Potter..)

Is this magical cake hard to make? not at all!

Ingredients

1 cup plain flour

3 tablespoons quality matcha powder- for intense matcha flavour

110g butter, melted

2 cups milk

4 eggs, separated

pinch of cream of tartar

a squeeze of lemon juice

1 1/2 cup of sweetened azuki beans

1 tablespoon water

for decorating:

dabs of sweetened azuki bean paste

1:1 ratio matcha powder and icing sugar, sieved.

Method

1. preheat oven to 150°C and grease and line a rectangular baking tray.

32 comments:

Waaah! That's a magic cake indeed!! Reminds me of that great debate when the hubby couldn't believe that the custard in emperor puffs was different from the dough they use for the shell haha :) Well I've got to make this cake to really make sure that it'll separate